Re: What is a woman ?

Hello,

> > OE wifman, i.e. wife-man.
>
> True but misleading.  _Wif_ meant "woman" in OE, not "wife",
> and _man_ was ambiguous between "adult male" and "human
> being" in OE as in ModE. So it's a transparent compound
> meaning "female human being".
Yes, I should've explained that. I only meant the ModE cognates, not
meanings. As if I said _hlaf-ord_, i. e. loaf-warden, which it didn't
mean, of course.

Pavel
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